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Christian Fiction
November 2018
Recent Releases
Thief of Corinth
Tessa Afshar
What it is:
a compelling, lyrical work of Biblical fiction that's set in 1st-century Corinth and features Paul the Apostle.
Sixteen-year-old Ariadne, who flees her abusive mother's Athens home to live with her father in Corinth, where she not only learns that he's an infamous thief, but also joins him as his assistant.
For fans of:
Jill Eileen Smith, Connilyn Cossette, and Francine Rivers.
Freedom's Light
Colleen Coble
Hannah Thomas, who is troubled by her
husband's death fighting in George Washington's army, the strictness of
her Puritan community,
disapproving in-laws, her sister's wild ways, and a deceptive old friend
What happens:
continues her husband's work as a
lighthouse keeper, which finds her helping (and developing feelings for) a kind shipwreck survivor who may be a spy.
Try this next:
For other engaging, atmospheric romances set during the American revolution, try Beth White's
The Creole Princess
or Kimberley Woodhouse's
The Patriot Bride.
Everything She Didn't Say
Jane Kirkpatrick
What it is:
a biographical novel imagining the life of Carrie Strahorn, who followed her strong-willed husband (a Union Pacific Railroad investor and writer) across the American West between 1877 and 1925.
About the author:
Jane Kirkpatrick writes well-researched historical novels showcasing real women; she based this novel on Strahorn's memoir
Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage
For fans of:
Jody Hedlund's Orphan Train series, which also combines fascinating history with richly detailed stories.
Ours for a Season
Kim Vogel Sawyer
What happens:
hildless Mennonites
Martha and Anthony leave their family-oriented Indiana community for Kansas to help an old friend turn a ghost town into a resort -- but all three of them confront unexpected challenges.
Is it for you?
Told from multiple points of view and addressing difficult topics like fertility problems, terminal illness, and even human trafficking, this well-wrought novel is a moving, powerful read.
An Amish Christmas
The Gift
Shelley Shepard Gray
What happens:
The Vance family is forced to sell their Kentucky farm after bad decisions and their father's gambling leave them in debt. The Schwartz family buys it and moves in just before the holidays, but a
series of suspicious accidents plague them
. Is someone trying to scare them away? Susanna Schwartz hopes it's not handsome Neil Vance.
Series alert:
Though this is the 3rd entry in The Amish of Hart County series, newcomers who enjoy romantic suspense are welcome here.
Christmas at Promise Lodge
Charlotte Hubbard
Set in...
a new community in contemporary Missouri founded by three Amish sisters who hope to create a welcoming place for families and single people, whether Amish or Mennonite.
What happens:
one of the sisters, a widow, may discover love again, and a young unmarried Amish woman, who's pregnant after being raped, could find love for the first time.
Series alert:
This is the 2nd of three books in the Promise Lodge series (and recipes are included in all).
An Amish Christmas Love: Four Novellas
Beth Wiseman, Amy Clipston, Kelly Irvin, and Ruth Reid
What it is:
a heartwarming anthology of Christmas stories celebrating the Christmas season and love in various forms.
Novelllas include:
"Winter Kisses" by Beth Wiseman (featuring three generations of women and their suitors), "The Christmas Cat" by Amy Clipston (starring a grieving widow and a stray cat), "Snow Angels" by Kelly Irvin (which has characters from her Bee County series), and "Home for Christmas" by Ruth Reid (with an English woman, an Amish man, and a poodle named Lulu).
The Angel of Forest Hill: An Amish Christmas Romance
Cindy Woodsmall
Rose Kurtz, the insecure, emotionally abused 21-year-old only daughter in a large Pennsylvania Amish family, who, at her bishops' request, goes to West Virginia to aid a young family.
What happens:
Ruth arrives, the wife has just died, leaving behind an infant, two toddlers, and a grieving husband. Rose agrees to a platonic marriage, partially to avoid going home again.
For fans of:
well-drawn characters, thoughtful stories, and modern
marriage-of-convenience romances.
Contact your librarian for more great books!


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Radical innovation: Unlocking the future of human invention
Ready to see the future? Nanotronics CEO Matthew Putman talks innovation and the solutions that are within reach.
Innovation in manufacturing has crawled since the 1950s. That's about to speed up. Using a combination of imagination and technology, science tech company Nanotronics aims to revolutionize the factory floor so that industries can have a smaller factory footprint, produce less waste, and rapidly increase the speed from R&D to production—it's this very philosophy that allowed Nanotronics to pivot and manufacture ventilators as a rapid response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lessons learned live
In this webinar, you'll learn:
- Why non-invasive breathing devices are in demand and how they can improve patient outcomes
- About the innovative features of Nanotronics' bi-level breathing device
- How excessive outsourcing can stymie internal innovation and expertise
- Why we need to rethink the association between low-cost products and low-cost labor
- About the potentially positive impacts of Artificial Intelligence
- How to think about A.I. as an opportunity, rather than a threat
- How U.V. lighting can be used not only to disinfect surfaces, but to disinfect the atmosphere via air filtration systems
- How customer needs drive the innovation cycle at Nanotronics
- Why Mr. Putman pursues all innovation with a sense of urgency
- How to think about which ideas to optimize when experimenting
- Why you should not be intimidated by high-tech requirements for innovation
- About the unique challenges and benefits of collaborating in a virtual environment
- How to think about improving remote collaboration with both humans and robots
- How to think about innovation in terms of macro-level vs. micro-level failure
From the audience Q&A:
- Why Nanotronics could be a great partner for innovators who are making physical products and starting from scratch
- Why greater precision in innovation means less waste; decision rules for reducing waste; essential questions for reexamining traditional approaches to reducing waste, like recycling
- Why Mr. Putman thinks of Universal Basic Income as a potential step in the right direction toward a more abundant future, but not as an end step in itself
- How space exploration serves an important inspirational purpose
- Why planet-based innovation serves humankind's more immediate needs
- Why you don't have to be Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk to have an enormous impact as an innovator, and how to think about your work in terms of obligations and responsibilities
- How the patent system helps Nanotronics organize their ideas and why innovators should not let the system slow them down from starting to build
In this Big Think Live session, presented by BMO Financial Group, Matthew Putman, scientist, musician, and CEO of Nanotronics, and Peter Hopkins, co-founder and president of Big Think, will open a window to the future. Learn how manufacturing disruption will accelerate innovation in a multitude of industries, why impact over profit should be a guiding star for leaders, and watch Putnam settle this question once and for all: Is AI a homicidal, job-devouring nemesis?
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Only 35 percent of Americans know the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease
Yet 80 percent of respondents want to reduce their risk of dementia.
- A new MDVIP/Ipsos survey found that only 35 percent of Americans know the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.
- Eighty percent of respondents said they want to reduce their risks.
- An estimated 7.1 million Americans over the age of 65 will suffer from Alzheimer's by 2025.
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Remaining healthy requires regular screenings. Here again we see a disassociation between risk reduction and proactivity. Seventy-seven percent of respondents don't talk to their doctors about lifestyle habits that support brain health; 51 percent have never been screened for depression; 44 percent have never had a neurological exam; and 32 percent have never been screened for hearing problems.

Common early warning signs of dementia, according to Dr. Jason Karlawish, co-director of the Penn Memory Center, include repetitive questions and stories, difficulties with complex daily tasks, and trouble with orientation.

In terms of intervention, exercise, diet, building a brain reserve, and challenging your brain (such as learning a new language or musical instrument) are all proven methods for staving off the ravages of Alzheimer's. Oxytocin has also showed promise in brain-addled mice, while researchers found positive results for a group of intermittent fasters in promoting neurogenesis.

Epidemiologist Bryan James says that dementia is not an inevitable result of aging.

"It's simply not pre-destined for all human beings. Lots of people live into their 90s and even 100s with no symptoms of dementia."

Professor of neurology at Boston University School of Medicine, Andrew Budson, recommends aerobic exercise and the Mediterranean diet. As has long been known, whole grains, fruits and vegetables, fish and shellfish, and healthy fasts like nuts and olive oil seem to have brain-boosting properties.

To learn more, take the Brain Health IQ quiz.

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Stay in touch with Derek on Twitter, Facebook and Substack. His next book is "Hero's Dose: The Case For Psychedelics in Ritual and Therapy."

US, Russia, China won't join global initiative to offer fair access to COVID-19 vaccines. Why not?
The U.S., China, and Russia are in a "vaccine race" that treats a global challenge like a winner-take-all game.
All for one (vaccine)
Launched this April, the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator brought together a panoply of governments, scientists, businesses, and global health organizations with the goal of accelerating the development, production, and distribution of an efficacious COVID-19 vaccine. The "vaccines pillar" of this initiative is the COVAX Facility.

COVAX is coordinated by the WHO, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. The program maintains a diverse portfolio of COVID-10 vaccines, monitoring each to identify promising candidates. It has also partnered with manufacturers to ease investment risks and serves as a purchasing pool for self-financing countries, while offering fundraising efforts to poorer ones.

"[G]overnments from every continent have chosen to work together, not only to secure vaccines for their own populations, but also to help ensure that vaccines are available to the most vulnerable everywhere," Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi, said in a release. "With the commitments we're announcing today for the COVAX Facility, as well as the historic partnership we are forging with industry, we now stand a far better chance of ending the acute phase of this pandemic once safe, effective vaccines become available."

In an interview with Vox, Berkley noted that the ACT Accelerator is the largest global collaboration since the Paris Climate Agreement. He added, "This type of solidarity is critical because otherwise what you're going to end up with is just a constant reintroduction of infections and the inability to go back to normal."

As of Monday, 64 higher-income countries and 92 low- and middle-income countries—representing nearly two-thirds of the world's population—have signed commitments to COVAX. Thirty-eight more are expected to sign soon.

COVAX's goal is to have 2 billion doses by the end of 2021. Experts estimate this amount will cover high-risk and vulnerable people, as well as healthcare workers, worldwide. Participating nations must cover those populations before administering vaccines according to national priorities. As part of the agreement, countries agree to support equal access to the vaccine once it becomes available, a move aimed at preventing hoarding and price gouging.

Currently, CEPI is supporting nine candidate vaccines, of which eight are in clinical trials.

Why has the U.S. backed out?
The United States is gambling that its bilateral deals with various pharmaceutical companies will win the "vaccine race." This U.S.-only initiative, named (sigh) Operation Warp Speed, has already spent approximately $10 billion and is pushing to deliver 300 million doses by January 2021. Many experts worry this speedy push through the regulatory path could result in premature and dangerous approvals.

China and Russia have likewise bet on their own high-priced ponies. Russia is touting an unvetted vaccine nicknamed (double sigh) "Sputnik V." This vaccine has only concluded phase 1 and 2 trials with a small number of participants, yet Russia claims to have already received international requests. Meanwhile, China has administered tens of thousands of doses of a vaccine before completing phase 3 clinical trials.

An additional barrier to the United States' participation: COVAX is a WHO-led initiative. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump admonished the WHO as a corrupt organization and claimed it assisted China in covering up the coronavirus outbreak and its severity. Though he presented no evidence for the accusation, Trump has used it as the basis for his threat to cut ties with, and funding for, the agency.

"The United States will continue to engage our international partners to ensure we defeat this virus, but we will not be constrained by multilateral organizations influenced by the corrupt World Health Organization and China," said Judd Deere, a spokesman for the White House, said in a statement.

He added, "This president will spare no expense to ensure that any new vaccine maintains our own FDA's gold standard for safety and efficacy, is thoroughly tested, and saves lives."

By shirking COVAX, these countries hope to gain peerless access to a vaccine. Each could secure large numbers of doses for its citizens while also reaping the political boons to follow. In the United States, President Trump has pinned his re-election bid on a timely vaccine, while Chinese officials seem posed to use a vaccine to repair diplomatic ties.

But the loss of such rich economies will prove a blow to COVAX and the ACT Accelerator. Vaccines are notoriously expensive and risky to develop; the costs to manufacture doses at scale will be immense. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated the ACT Accelerator would cost roughly $30 billion, and the final bill for the tools to combat novel coronavirus would be at least $100 billion. But that's a pittance compared to the $10 trillion already spent on the pandemic so far.

"COVID-19 is an unprecedented global crisis that demands an unprecedented global response," Tedros said. "Vaccine nationalism will only perpetuate the disease and prolong the global recovery. Working together through the COVAX Facility is not charity, it's in every country's own best interests to control the pandemic and accelerate the global economic recovery."

The winner won't necessarily take all
SARS-CoV-2 vaccine
A new minimoon is headed towards Earth, and it's not natural
Astronomers spot an object heading into Earth orbit.
Minimoons
Scientists have confirmed just two prior minimoons. One was 2006 RH120, which orbited us from September 2006 to June 2007. The other was 2020 CD3, which got stuck in the 2015–2016 timeframe, and is believed to gotten away in May 2020.

2020 SO, the new kid on the block, is expected to arrive in October 2020 and pop out of orbit in May 2021.

Asteroid 2020 SO may get captured by Earth from Oct 2020 - May 2021. Current nominal trajectory shows shows capture… https://t.co/F5utxRvN6Z
 — Tony Dunn (@Tony Dunn)1600621989.0

Identifying 2020 SO
The first clue 2020 SO isn't your ordinary asteroid is its exceptionally low velocity. It's traveling much more slowly that a typical asteroid — their average rate of travel is 18 kilometers (58,000 feet) per second. Even moon rocks sent careening into Earth orbit by impacts on the lunar surface outpace pokey 2020 SO.

For another thing, 2020 SO has an orbital path very similar to Earth's, lasting about one Earth year. It's also just slightly less circular than our own orbit, from which it's barely tilted off-axis.

So, what is it? NASA estimates that the object has dimensions very reminiscent of a discarded Centaur rocket stage from the Surveyor 2 mission that landed an unmanned craft on the moon. Back in the day, rocket stages were jettisoned as craft were aimed toward their desired position. This stuff, if released high enough, remains in space. It appears that this Centaur rocket, launched in September 1966, is now making its way back homeward, at least for a little bit.

When 2020 SO arrives at its closest point in December, the rocket is expected to be about 50,000 kilometers from Earth. Its next closest approach is much further: 220,000 kilometers, in February 2010.

Centaur rocket stage
Credit: NASA/Wikimedia
What we may be able to learn
Earthly space programs being as young as they are, scientists would love to know what's happened to our rocket during a half century in space.

While 2020 SO won't get close enough to drop into our atmosphere, its slow progress has scientists hopeful that they'll still get some kind of a decent look at it.

Spectroscopy may be able to reveal what the rocket's surface is like now — has any of its paint survived, for example? Of course, being out in space, it's likely to have been hit by lots of dust and micrometeorites, so the current state of its surfaces is also of interest. Experts are curious to know how reflective the rocket is at this point, valuable information that can help planners of future long-term missions anticipate how well a craft out in space for extended periods will remain able to reflect sunlight.

Being in a frisky mood may improve your chances in the dating world
Positive, romantic thoughts could produce positive, romantic outcomes while dating.
- Fear of rejection, self-doubt, and anxiety are just some of the obstacles humans need to overcome to make a meaningful, romantic connection with another person.
- According to a 2020 project by a group of psychologists at the University of Rochester (and the Israeli-based Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya), humans see possible romantic partners as a lot more attractive if they go into the interaction with a "sexy mindset."
- Across three separate studies, this team discovered that this sexual activation helps people initiate relationships by inducing them to project their desires onto prospective partners.
Being in a frisky mood improves your chances with potential romantic partners
The right mood could land you the right date, according to a new study.
Credit: BlueSkyImage on Shutterstock
According to a 2020 study by a group of psychologists at the University of Rochester (and the Israeli-based Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya), humans see possible romantic partners as a lot more attractive if they go into the interaction with a "sexy mindset."

Harry Reis, professor of psychology and the Dean's Professor in Arts, Sciences & Engineering at Rochester, and Gurit Birnbaum, a social psychologist and associate professor of psychology at the IDC (Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya) have dedicated decades of their lives to studying the intricate dynamics of sexual attraction and human sexual behavior.

In a previous study, the pair discovered that when people feel greater certainty about a romantic partner's interest, they put more effort into seeing that person again. Additionally, this study found people will rate the possible partner as more "sexually attractive" if they knew the person was interested in seeing them again.

For this project, Reis and Birnbaum, along with their team, examined what would happen if a person's sexual system is activated by exposing them to brief sexual cues that induced a thought process that included the potential for sex or heightened attraction.

Across three separate studies, the team discovered that this sexual activation helps people initiate relationships by inducing them to project their desires onto prospective partners.

Study one: Immediacy

In the first study, 112 heterosexual participants (between the ages of 20-32) who were not in a romantic relationship were randomly paired with an unacquainted participant of the opposite sex. Participants introduced themselves to each other (speaking about their hobbies, positive traits, career plans, etc.), all while being recorded.

The team then coded the recorded interactions and searched for nonverbal expressions of immediacy (such as close proximity, frequent eye contact, smiles, etc.) that could indicate interest in starting a romantic relationship.

In the study, the team determined that the participants exposed to a sexual stimulus before the meeting (versus those exposed to a neutral stimulus) exhibited more immediacy behaviors towards their potential partners and also perceived the partners as more attractive and/or more interested in them.

Study two: Interest

In the second study, 150 heterosexual participants (between the ages of 19-30) who were not in a romantic relationship served as a control for the potential partner's attractiveness and reactions. All participants in study two watched the same pre-recorded video introduction of a potential partner of the opposite sex. They then introduced themselves to the partner while being filmed themselves.

The researchers found that the activation of the sexual system led to participants viewing the potential partner as more attractive as well as more interested in them.

Study three: How it all ties together

In the third and final study, the team investigated whether a partner's romantic interest could explain why sexual activation impacts how we view other people's romantic interest in ourselves.

In this study, 120 single heterosexual participants (between the ages of 21-31) interacted online with another participant who was actually an attractive opposite-sex member of the research team. This was a casual "get-to-know-you" kind of interaction. The participants rated their romantic interest in the other person as well as that person's attractiveness and interest in them.

Again, the team found that sexual activation increased a person's romantic interest in the other person, which, in turn, predicted that the other person would then be more interested in a romantic partnership as well.

The takeaway: Positive, romantic thoughts could produce positive, romantic outcomes.

The basis of this multi-study theory is simple: Having active sexual thoughts arouses romantic interest in a prospective partner and often leads to an optimistic outlook on dating.

"Sexual feelings do more than just motivate us to seek out partners. It also leads us to project our feelings onto the other person," said Reis to Eurekalert.

Reis goes on to explain, "...the sexual feelings need not come from the other person; they can be aroused in any number of ways that have nothing to do with the other person."

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Did you know the government is spending $1.2 million to pay people to play World of Warcraft? I didn't either!
Maybe that's because it ain't true, but truth is a relative thing when you're one of the assclowns leading an intellectually bankrupt legislature that can't go two months without a self-inflicted hostage crisis. That describes handsome dough-head Eric Cantor, Republican of Virginia and the House Majority leader, who thought it'd be a catchy talking point to spread some bullshit that there's $1.2 million in wasted federal grant money going to shiftless MMO players. Never mind that $1.2 million isn't piss in the ocean to our $16 trillion deficit, whether or not it poses any immediate threat to the economy. What Cantor is saying is bullshit.
Eight of his GOP colleagues retweeted that, making Warcraft into as much of a buzzword as anything can be in the age of Twitter. So FactCheck.org embarked upon its titular mission and, surprise, found Cantor is just making shit up.
Here's where I really get pissed. The government never paid $1.2 million for anyone to play World of Warcraft. The study in question cost $5,000 and that was funded entirely by my alma mater, North Carolina State University, whose Gains Through Gaming Lab we've written about before. In fact, we wrote about this same project, and others at the lab.
FactCheck spoke to the Lab's Anne McLaughlin, who said Cantor's claim is "entirely inaccurate." The lab's study of how MMOs improved cognitive functioning in senior citizens was not at all funded by the National Science Foundation. It's true, however, that the Warcraft research became the precursor to what is a $1.2 million grant from the NSF, which funds a larger series of studies about cognition, and it part uses the Wii game Boom Blox. Warcraft has nothing to do with it.
Of the $1.2 million in funding, only a small fraction goes toward compensating study participants, who take four three-hour cognition tests spread out over a year, and play Boom Blox for a total of 15 hours over two weeks.
"The facts simply get in the way of this Republican talking point," says FactCheck.org. "Paying people $1.2 million to play video games sounds a lot more outrageous than studying ways to improve the cognitive abilities of seniors. And it misleadingly twists what the grants are all about."
Paying People to Play Video Games [FactCheck.org]


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Report: Pipes stolen from McDonald's restroom
Police are investigating a theft of metal pipes from a fast-food restaurant's restroom.
Officers were called to the McDonald's near 108th Street and West Maple Road on Saturday for a report of a theft.
The person who reported the theft told officers that someone must have dismantled and stolen the metal pipes from the restaurant's restroom.
According to a police report, he said that surveillance video didn't show anything suspicious, but he thinks maybe two people were involved -- one to dismantle the pipes and the other to steal them -- so as not to look suspicious.
"Basically they have to have a wrench or some kind of tool. They have to unhook all the piping, then take all the piping and then they sell it for whatever they use it for," said manager C.J. Reed.
Reed said the bathroom bandits are probably trading that copper or brass in for $30 or $40, but the crime is costing $700.
It's believed the crime took place between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. that day.
Another similar theft had been reported at another McDonald's location.
Andy Roseberry with A&A Plumbing said he's getting several calls from commercial to residential to replace parts after crimes like this one. He said the crime is taking a toll on pipe suppliers.
"They are out of them, and I had to go to another location and they said the same thing. It's because all the theft that's going on," Roseberry said.


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MONTREAL — In his January 2012 editorial, Harvard Business Review editor Adi Ignatius offers this query: Are happy workforces in fact more productive?
In one article after another, the answer is a predictable, resounding YES.
Creating Sustainable Performance, by Gretchen Spreitzer and Christine Porah, makes the case that happy employees consistently outperform unhappy ones. No great surprise there. The message to remember is what constitutes "happy." According to Spreitzer and Porah, it's all about thriving, not about contentment.
It's about being highly engaged, constantly learning and avoiding burnout. How to do that?
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Simons's decade-long experience as a yoga teacher, personal trainer and health coach led him to create Organik in 2006. Asked initially to provide stress-reducing health breaks for Radio Canada's employees, Simons recognized an unmet need in the corporate world and his company was born.
Working with a network of professionals that extends from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, Organik provides assistance to corporations looking to boost employee health and wellness.
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Clients include Desjardins, Autorite des Marches Financiers, Standard Life, Sid Lee, The Royal Bank, Cofely Services and the CBC.
Shawn Achor, in his HBR article Positive Intelligence, writes of the research he conducted with tax managers just before tax season. Simple new habits such as 10 minutes of exercise a day, two minutes of journal writing and sending a positive message to a colleague resulted in "significantly higher scores in optimism and life satisfaction. Even briefly engaging in just one positive activity during the workday can have a significant effect on levels of stress reduction and overall happiness."
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Until the day he was outed, the most influential commentator on South Korea's economy lived the life of a nobody. Park Dae-Sung owned a small apartment in a middle-class neighborhood of Seoul and freelanced part-time at a telecom company. Thirty years old, he still hoped to earn a four-year degree in economics. In the mornings, he would bicycle to the public library to study for the university entrance exam. His standard uniform was slacks, loafers, and wrinkle-free button-down shirts, as though he were going to work in an office. But with his slightly chubby moon face, glasses, and neatly parted hair, he easily blended in among the rows of students. While they worked through school assignments, he immersed himself in the text of his chosen profession.
In the evenings, Park would go online, frittering away the hours like millions of other geeks. He often played the simulation game Capitalism II, where he'd assume the role of a blue-chip investor, closing million-dollar deals and speculating on skyscrapers. Nothing that he did earned him any attention.
Then, in March 2008, Park opened an account on South Korea's popular Daum Agora forum. Here, he decided, he would call himself Minerva, after the Roman goddess of wisdom, and write exclusively on economics, drawing on both public reports and his years in the stacks poring over Adam Smith and Joseph Stiglitz. Affecting the effortless command of a seasoned investor, he strove to project the authority that had eluded him in real life. The world economy is in the midst of collapse, he warned, so pay your debts and stock up on noodles and drinkable water. He made pronouncements on when to buy or sell a home, exchange Korean won for dollars, and pull out of the financial markets altogether.
As the financial crisis deepened, events confirmed Minerva's prophecies all too terribly. By early fall, each new dispatch would rise into Daum Agora's top five headlines, carried by a tide of user votes and drawing hundreds of thousands of pageviews. South Korea's daily press began publicizing Minerva's predictions and speculating about his identity. The more the newspapers tried to pierce the veil of Minerva, the more their readers devoured his posts, until it seemed the goddess was giving marching orders to the entire economy.
The post that would bring Minerva worldwide fame appeared on August 25, 2008, under the florid title "Overture to the 2008 Financial Wars: Apocalypse Now in Korea." It attacked a plan, floated three days before by the Korea Development Bank, to purchase a large chunk of Lehman Brothers. Minerva held forth at length on the stupidity of this idea, given that Lehman was groaning under $50 billion in debt. If KDB invested in Lehman, Minerva wrote, the people of Korea stood to lose as much as $80 billion. Once again, his pessimism proved to be deadly accurate. KDB and Lehman were unable to agree on a sale price. A few weeks later, Lehman filed for bankruptcy. The newspapers hailed Minerva as "the Internet economic president." The prediction, Park reflected later, was all in the data: "I looked at the mortgage market in America, the oil market, the economic cycle, the circulation of capital. I analyzed all of these and determined the result."
Under the cloak of anonymity, Park believed he could insulate his real life from the adulation surrounding his online presence. Minerva had no published email address, and Park read only a few of the hundreds of comments that accumulated beneath his posts. Wearing the mask of Minerva allowed him to set aside the polite restraint that characterized his personal emails. As Minerva, he wrote with fiery bombast, comparing the gravity of the crisis to Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. Minerva's ascendance, he now believes, was due to the "pure purpose" of his writing — the sincere desire to help his readers ride out the crisis. "Some people use the Internet for money or fame," he said later. "I didn't."
When the media began hailing Minerva as an oracle, Park did not revel in the glory. If anything, awareness of his growing authority made him take more care with his predictions. He worried about leading his frightened countrymen astray. And as weeks flew by and Minerva's name towered in the headlines, Park began to fear that he might be unmasked.
Names are supposed to function like credit ratings: one account per person; one person per account; the account sticks with you for life. Good credit builds up gradually, and a few bad decisions can undo years of steady responsibility. Tell some lies or make wild predictions and soon no one will listen to you. For those who already hold authority, the best way to keep it is to speak carefully and conservatively. This is why the people we listen to most closely in times of economic uncertainty — the central bankers and finance ministers — have trouble warning of impending crises until they are obvious to just about everyone. The authorities have too much at stake to risk being wrong.
Writing as a Roman goddess, Park discovered the power of taking on another name. Had he posted under his own, no one would have paid attention. As Minerva, however, he could easily be mistaken for a powerful official who had assumed a pseudonym for an entirely different reason: to speak the truth without imperiling his career. Park did nothing to discourage this inference, referring, for example, to his extensive Wall Street experience. The press couldn't resist trying to puzzle out his identity.
Anonymous Internet posters are often denounced as hit-and-run artists who intimidate the polite and the sincere. Indeed, online spaces that are rich in anonymity and poor in moderation risk devolving into a cesspool of trolls, flacks, and flame warriors. But here and there, the Internet elevates anonymous voices who speak unvarnished truths that would have gone unrecognized had they appeared below their authors' real names. Zero Hedge's Tyler Durden, TheFunded's (formerly anonymous) Adeo Ressi, and the irascible Bike Snob NYC are all credits to the equalizing power of anonymity.
This phenomenon predates the Internet by centuries. In 16th-century England, a band of heretics moved an illegal printing press around the countryside, publishing a series of anticlerical pamphlets under the name Martin Marprelate. In Rome around the same time, the Italian public took to criticizing the powerful in long, humorous, unsigned verse, surreptitiously slapped up on the base of a statue in the Piazza Pasquino, a tradition that continues to this day. Two hundred years later, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison aired early arguments for the founding of the US in the Federalist papers under the handle Publius. The last time the US fell under a Minerva-scale pseudonymous sensation was in 1996, when Joe Klein's Primary Colors — a novel signed Anonymous — satirized the presidential campaign of Bill Clinton (in the guise of silver-tongued governor Jack Stanton). The narrator nailed such particulars as Clinton's "furrowed brow, pouty-mouthed, elementary-school-penitent look." The book sold about 3 million copies.
Park updated this tradition for the Internet, where archival facts are available on demand, the stream of international news never stops, and sites like Wikileaks and Cryptome make anonymity available to anyone with an ax to grind, a secret to share, or a document to leak. Like the pamphleteers of earlier days, Minerva established himself as a consistent character on the public stage. His writing was distinctive enough for readers to feel they knew him, while the vagueness of his identity allowed them to idealize him as a sage who would guide them through the crisis. The Minerva case is a reminder that anonymity has uses beyond the incognito bashing of enemies. A carefully crafted pseudonymous voice can seem to come from a hidden spring of wisdom — enunciating what everyone wants to hear and what no one is willing to say. But the illusion is fragile. When the person behind the name is revealed, everything comes crashing down.
The first sign of trouble came when Park's phone rang in early October. It was a representative from Daum asking if he would be willing to speak with a journalist. Park hung up in a panic. He had told no one about his secret, not even his sister. But he had submitted his national ID and phone numbers when setting up the Minerva account. So someone at Daum, he assumed, must have handed it over. Then, a few weeks later, the government's finance minister reportedly urged Minerva to step forward so that he could correct the blogger's faulty notions about the country's financial policy (the minister later denied having made such a statement). When this invitation went unanswered, the attorney general announced an investigation into Minerva's true identity.
Fearing exposure, Park began to scale back his blogging. "I will shut my mouth because the nation ordered me to be silent," he wrote. A few days into 2009 he posted an epic farewell, which he hoped would cement Minerva's legacy. Entitled "We Must Rely on Hope," it contained fantastical confessions about Minerva's life as a selfish financier and begged his readers to turn away from a life of greed: "Devils finance capitalism. Don't live like me. Please take care of your family and yourself ... Rescue yourself from money. It's made of paper and ink." His farewell ends, "I apologize again. I'm really sorry. I can only say sorry, nothing else."
Two days later, Park was packing up his cell phone and laptop, getting ready to meet some friends, when the doorbell rang. Looking through the peephole he saw nothing. Whoever it was had covered the lens. Tentatively, he cracked the door open. Four plainclothes investigators pushed past him, displaying a warrant.
"Would you come with us?" one asked. "We need to ask you some questions."
Even after Minerva had become a regular topic on the evening news, a part of Park continued to believe the world of Daum and the world of his apartment would remain forever separate. Now they had collided, and the police were gathering up his two computers, his external hard drive, his CDs and books. Soon the terrified Park was on his way to an interview room near the city courthouse.
"Are you Minerva?" a detective asked.
"Yes," said Park Dae-Sung, for the first time. "I am Minerva."
The more notorious a pseudonymous writer becomes, the more fame itself begins to threaten the author's anonymity. Journalist Joe Klein repeatedly denied any connection to Primary Colors, at one point swearing on his professional credibility that he was not the book's author. He kept up these repudiations for months until a reporter from The Washington Post got his hands on a manuscript and established that notes made on the pages matched Klein's handwriting. When the truth came out, many journalists were outraged. Of course, the fallout can be much worse: The printer who produced Martin Marprelate's pamphlets in the 1500s was hanged.
Today anonymous dissenters are unlikely to be punished in democratic countries. But the law in South Korea makes it easy for the government to unmask troublesome writers. Every account on Daum and other major sites is associated with a national ID number. In Minerva's case, Daum promptly handed over his IP address, which led the police directly to Park's door.
Even without government intervention, most well-known pseudonymous writers are eventually exposed. Daniel Lyons' Secret Diary of Steve Jobs blog followed a classic rise-and-fall story line: a moderate stream of attention boiling into a torrent of public speculation about who was behind it, and then a complete loss of interest after the mystery was solved. (Lyons is now a columnist for Newsweek.)
Still, a few pseudonymous writers have escaped exposure. The most prominent is probably Junius, who penned a series of popular open letters that ran in the Public Advertiser in late-18th-century England. Written in disguised handwriting, the letters contain a mixture of musings on the rights of man and blistering attacks on the corrupt ministers of King George III. Whoever Junius was, he took his anonymity to the grave. Almost 240 years later, historians still haven't settled the question of the vindictive scribe's true identity.
Occasionally, a writer can export his credibility from his online persona to his real one. In early 2008, Nate Silver had a double identity, analyzing baseball statistics under his real name and polling data under the handle Poblano. When Poblano's predictions began to gain a following, he revealed himself, noting, "It just ain't very professional to keep referring to yourself as a chili pepper." Soon his FiveThirtyEight became one of the most prominent political blogs in the US.
Silver, the great exception, took control of his own outing, never lying to the public about his true identity and possessing real credentials to back up his virtual authority. His pseudonymity worked as marketing, but the world probably would have paid attention had he written under his own name. Park, on the other hand, was totally dependent on being unknown.
At their heart, most pseudonymous identities are collaborations between the author, who provides the outline of a persona, and the audience, which fills in the blanks. The result is a sort of virtual superhero, an oracle more accurate than any mortal could hope to be. Compared to the elusive mastermind of the collective imagination, the real author inevitably disappoints.
For 103 days, the South Korean government held Park in a 50-square-foot cell at a Seoul detention center. Interrogators asked about his family, whether he had a girlfriend, whether he was a spy. He tried to keep calm, meeting with his volunteer legal team and studying the writings of the early-20th-century Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. "I felt so isolated," he says. "They accused me of selling out my country. No! I'm not a spy. I wanted to help through my criticism. I had thought that South Korea was a democratic country. I felt as though my nation betrayed me."
Then, in April, when the bedraggled young Park anxiously took a seat in the courtroom, Minerva's world collapsed. Now the whole country could see that the brilliant financier they had been betting their livelihoods on was an impostor, the sort of schlumpy nobody who might show up to install your cable. In the glare of public scrutiny, Park not only lost his authority, he began to lose his sense of self.
At trial, the government argued that false information published by Park had rattled currency markets and panicked thousands of citizens into selling off dollars, at a cost to the government of $2.2 billion. This, asserted the prosecution, violated a law forbidding the use of a computer to "spread a false rumor maliciously intending to damage the public interest." They asked for a prison sentence of 18 months.
Among the experts who testified on Park's behalf was Kim Tae-Dong, an economics professor at Seoul's Sungkyunkwan University who once served as an adviser to South Korea's president. "Minerva is a much better teacher than I am," Kim said later. "His writing is so easy for ordinary people to understand. I was surprised about his lack of a formal economics background." The judge agreed with Kim's argument: Even if the Minerva posts about the government's policies were false, Park sincerely believed them. Park was acquitted of all charges.
Waiting outside the prison gates were his mother, his legal retinue, and news photographers. But Park's legal vindication didn't solve his problems. For one, South Korean law allowed the government to appeal the case in the hopes of prosecuting Park again. Worse, media ambushes left him fearful of returning home in the days and weeks after his release. "He's been anxious since he went to jail," one of his attorneys says. "He's been forgetting things. It's hard for him to communicate." Prosecutors still had his computers and hard drive. He hadn't been blogging or writing email or even answering his phone.
After his trial, Park likened his situation to that of a soldier who had fought in Iraq: "Losing Minerva ... it's like post-traumatic stress disorder. Consciously, I think I'm all right. But unconsciously, I know something is wrong. I haven't been writing at all. I'm feeling a lot of mental pressure. I had to stop writing not because I wanted to stop but because they forced me to stop. Now I'm having trouble starting again. It feels like I lost a part of myself."
When Park lost his anonymity, he lost his credibility as well. Rather than accept that the ramblings of a self-educated freelancer were superior to their daily newspapers, most of the public wrote off the cult of Minerva as a fad. Daum's hardcore readership became consumed by conspiracy theories about the identity of the real Minerva, who must have set up Park through some Byzantine plot.
A few weeks after his release, the apartment where Park invented Korea's foremost economic authority looked immaculate. A wall calendar was X'ed up through January 7, the day of his arrest. On the wall above the desk in his bedroom were no stock indexes or candlestick charts, just inspirational magazine clippings — images of cars, sneakers, Jesus nailed to the cross, and ads for MBA programs. One read: must be a success. Hanging on the wall was an empty diploma frame. "It doesn't mean anything," Park said flatly. He added, "I used to have friends, but not since my arrest. The police called them up and now they're frightened."
From time to time, a grateful reader who saw his picture in the newspaper or online recognizes him on the street. One woman even sent him a thank-you box of ginseng, in care of his attorneys. His plans are unclear. He mentions fantasies of fleeing his homeland for somewhere that would appreciate him. This fall, he wrote periodically about personal finance for a local newspaper. Next he plans to write a book. His predictions are more conservative now, though, and the earth-shattering power of a national following has not returned. The government may have failed to obtain a conviction, but in unmasking Park it succeeded in destroying most of Minerva's public standing. Prosecutors will have another chance to put Park behind bars this winter, when their appeal reaches South Korea's second-highest court.
It is very difficult to find anyone in the South Korean government willing to talk about Minerva. The prosecutors say they can't discuss the case until the appeal is over. Two spokespeople for the Korea Communication Standards Commission explain that they weren't directly involved with the case, though they do have as many as 50 employees watching Daum and other sites at any given time. "We have to protect our children and our public," one of them explains. "That's the government's job, to maintain a nice, clean Internet." A spokesperson for the Ministry of Strategy and Finance says Park was beneath their notice. "If his theories were made by a publicly recognized institute, we might have some comment. And it is not appropriate for the government to comment on forecasts published by citizens on the Internet." Months before, the head of the same ministry had argued that Minerva's influence over exchange rates had cost billions. Now, however, the government had nothing to fear. Once again, as it had been during his whole previous life, Park could be treated like any other nobody.
Mattathias Schwartz (www.mattathiasschwartz.com) was the founding editor of The Philadelphia Independent.


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To read of the stunning news, of the almost-overnight liquidation of the Ataturkist or secularist military caste, and to try to do so from the standpoint of a seriously secular Turk, is to have a small share in the sense of acute national vertigo that must have accompanied the proclamation of a new system in the second two decades of the 20th century.
For example, today's vice president of Kemal Ataturk's historical political party, the Republican People's Party or RPP, was quoted on Friday as speaking of "a second Turkish republic" with a heavy heart "in the seaside city of Cannkkale," and not long after, it seemed that some high-ranking Turkish officers would now be arrested rather than, as previously reported, having had their resignations accepted. That famous seaside peninsula, as the New York Times did not emphasize, also bears the name of Gallipoli. It is the place where Gen. Mustafa Kemal inflicted the most bloody and tragic defeat on British imperial forces in 1915-16, while also convincing Rupert Murdoch's cocky colonial ancestors that their brave Aussie forebears had been used as cannon fodder by teak-headed British toffs. The apple of the notorious 1981 Mel Gibson movie did not roll very far from the tree. Within a few years of Gallipoli, the same Turkish general had, in fact, reversed the local verdict of the 1914-18 war, and expelled Greek, French, and British forces from Anatolia.
The historic weight of this is almost impossible to overstate: Ataturk (who was quite probably a full-blown atheist) could write his own secular ticket precisely because he had ignominiously defeated three Christian invaders. Yet for decades, Western statecraft has been searching feverishly for another Mustafa Kemal, someone who can jumpstart the modernization of a Muslim community under his own name. For a while, they thought Gamal Abdel Nasser might be the model. Then there was the Shah of Iran. They even briefly fancied the notions of Saddam Hussein, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and other characters who will live in infamy. But nobody ever came close to touching Ataturk for authority and authenticity. Under his power, the great caliphate was done away with, and the antique rule of the celestial and the sublime reduced to a dream in which only a few ascetic visionaries and sectarians showed any real interest. Until recently, modern Turkey showed every sign of evolving into a standard capitalist state on the European periphery.
There was, however, an acid rivalry concealed within the new Turkish establishment. The nascent Islamist populist movement—the Justice and Development Party of Recep Tayyip Erdogan—understood very well that, once in the European Union proper, Turkey would be prevented by EU law from submitting to another period of rule by men in uniform. We thus saw the intriguing spectacle of quite conservative and nationalist Turks (with a distinct tendency to chauvinism in Erdogan's case) making common cause with liberal international institutions against the very Turkish institution, the army, that above all symbolized Turkish national pride and prestige. This cooperation between ostensibly secular and newly pious may have had something to do with a growing sense of shame among the educated secular citizenry of big cities like Istanbul, who always knew they could count on the army to uphold their rights but who didn't enjoy exerting the privilege. The fiction of Orhan Pamuk, Turkey's complex Nobelist and generally liberal author, has explored this paradox very well. His novel Snow is perhaps the best dress rehearsal for the argument.
Because of course Pamuk is also the most edgy spokesman for the rights of the Kurds and the Armenians, and of those whose very nationality has put them in collision with the state. He has been threatened with imprisonment under archaic laws forbidding the discussion of certain topics, and he must have noticed the high rate of death that has overcome dissidents, like Turkish-Armenian editor Hrant Dink, who have exercised insufficient caution.
But the sordid fact is that the "secular" military elite in Turkey had already sold out a number of the values that were real to Ataturk and necessary for Turkey's integration into the Eurosphere. The Turkish army not only allowed itself to become a participant in the dirty and illegal land grab that continues to offend all international laws and U.N. resolutions affecting the self-proclaimed colonial statelet in the north of the island of Cyprus, but in the early years of the occupation, the leader of Ataturk's party—Bulent Ecevit—was rounded up as a political detainee. This negation of free movement within EU borders has poisoned relations with Greece, driven tens of thousands of Cypriots into economic exile, and delayed the integration of two advanced economies—Turkey and Cyprus—at just the point when the Athenian economy cannot go it alone.
Having for years provided a rearguard at Incirlik Air Base for the humanitarian relief of the Iraqi Kurdish and Shiite populations, the Turks were offered the opportunity to lend a "northern front" and to finish the job of Operation Provide Comfort in 2003. The strong impression received by some of us who sat in the waiting rooms outside the discussions of this policy was that the Turkish army was declining the honor mainly because the bribe or inducement wasn't large enough. It also seemed that the same army was hoping for a chance to project its own power in the Kurdish provinces of northern Iraq. To be waging another dirty war on the soil of a foreign state, and to be paying for it by using money supplied by the foreign aid budget of the U.S. Congress, looked like bad faith of a very special kind.
In 1960, the Turkish army held the ring by intervening to execute two powerful political bosses—Adnan Menderes and Fatin Zorlu—who according to my best information had instigated vicious pogroms in Istanbul and Nicosia and even tried the provocation of bombing Kemal Ataturk's birthplace in Salonika. (See, if interested, my little book Hostage to History: Cyprus From the Ottomans to Kissinger.) But this long, uneven symbiosis between state and nation and army and modernity has now run its course. In its time, it flung a challenge to the injustice of the Treaty of Versailles, revived regional combat on a scale to evoke the Crusades, and saw the American and Turkish flags raised together over blood-soaked hills in Korea in the first bellicose engagements of the Cold War. That epoch is now over. One wonders only whether to be surprised at how long it lasted or how swiftly it drew to a close and takes comfort from the number of different ways in which it is possible to be a Turk or a Muslim.


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Visitors viewing the History Display on the mezzanine level of the Royal Exhibition Building.Image: Heath WarwickSource: Museum Victoria
The display at the Royal Exhibition Building interprets the history of the building from its construction in 1879 and Federation in 1901 to its function today. Major changes, key events and people feature on the 15 display panels alongside an interactive screen with beautiful historical images that highlight the grandeur of the building.
The building is accessible during public exhibitions or via a public tour most days. For more information about the tour call 13 11 02 or visit Royal Exhibition Building Tours.
Commissioned in 1880 for the Melbourne International Exhibition, the 'Hochgurtel' fountain dominates the southern entrance to the Royal Exhibition Building, about 1996.Source: Museum Victoria
On 1 July 2004, the Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens were inscribed on the World Heritage List. The Exhibition Building is the only 19th century Great Hall to survive largely intact, still in its original landscape setting, and still used as a palace of industry.
Prior to this, listings by the National Trust of Victoria (1958), the Victorian Register of Government Buildings (1972) and the Australian Heritage Commission (1975) helped ensure the building's survival in an age of modernisation.
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The Exhibition Trustees commissioned conservation architect Allan Willingham to prepare the first conservation analysis of the Exhibition Building. His 1983 report was too late to save the two machinery annexes. The western annexe was destroyed between 1962 and 1967, the eastern annexe between 1971 and 1979.
However Willingham's report did establish the criteria for all future work to the building, and ultimately led to the restoration of its interior and exterior.
In 1839, large tracts of land on the outskirts of the city were reserved as public parks. Carlton Gardens, an elevated site to the north of Melbourne, was one of the areas selected.
Paths and other features were constructed in the gardens in the late 1850s, following a design prepared by Edward La Trobe Bateman. Joseph Reed's design for the Exhibition Building also included a design for the gardens. It was laid out by William Sangster, a Melbourne horticulturist, in 1879–1880.
Over the course of the 20th century the landscape immediately surrounding the Exhibition Building has seen a lot of change. In the mid 1950s, in preparation for the 1956 Olympics, the circular garden to the west of the building was asphalted. The area to the north of the building became a car park.
While plantings changed in the southern gardens, Reed's 1880 layout remained unchanged.
In December 1877 a competition was announced for the design of a suitable building for Melbourne's proposed International Exhibition. Eighteen entries were received. The winner was Joseph Reed of the architectural firm Reed & Barnes. Reed was awarded the first place premium of £300 for his Rundbogenstil (round archstyle) design.
The foundation stone was laid by Governor Sir George Bowen on 19 February 1879. Prominent Melbourne builder David Mitchell won the tender to construct the main building. Exhibitors were able to move in by May 1880.
On 1 October 1880, over 6000 people flocked to the main hall of the Exhibition Building to see the Governor, the Marquess of Normanby, open the Melbourne International Exhibition. Thirty-three nations had responded to the invitation to participate. Over 32000 exhibits were displayed from every corner of the world including Great Britain, France, Germany, India, Japan, China, the United States of America and all Australian colonies.
By the time of its official closure on 30 April 1881, over 1.3 million people had visited the Exhibition. Victoria's population at the time was just over 250000.
Josef Hochgurtel, a recent immigrant from Cologne, and his colleague August Saupe won a competition to design the fountain for the southern entrance of the Exhibition Building. Rich in iconography, the fountain features young boys who illustrate innocence and the purity of youth; symbols of industry, commerce, science and art; and representations of Victorian flora and fauna.
Two million visitors (double the population of Victoria at the time) travelled to the exhibition — many taking advantage of the newly installed cable tram along Nicholson Street — to view displays from nearly 40 nations. Thanks to the installation of electric lighting, the exhibition offered night-time viewing, the first in the world to do so.
Music was one of the main attractions of the Centennial International Exhibition. The conductor of the London Royal Philharmonic Society, Frederick Cowen, was engaged to oversee the musical festival. Frederick Sargood, vice-president of the Exhibition Commission, covered all expenses, including Cowen's astronomical fee of £5000.
Frederick Cowen assembled an orchestra of 73 professional players and a choir of 700 voices. In the six month life of the exhibition, the Centennial Orchestra gave 263 concerts. Cowen returned to England at the close of the exhibition, but his orchestra continued until 1891.
Twelve thousand guests filled the Exhibition Building on 9 May 1901 to witness the opening of the first federal parliament of Australia by the Duke of Cornwall and York (later to become King George V).
The royal party was seated on a raised dais under the southern transept. The new commonwealth parliamentarians were seated under the dome; their state counterparts were seated behind them in the northern transept. Other dignitaries filled the seats in the east and west naves, while the galleries were filled with members of the press and invited guests.
On 4 February 1919, the Exhibition Building was turned into a hospital to treat Melburnians struck down by the Spanish 'flu'. Initially housing 500 beds, the hospital grew to accommodate 2000 patients: females were located between the concert platform in the western nave and the dome; male patients occupied the spaces beyond.
The basement housed a morgue. In an attempt to make the hospital less 'draughty and cheerless', nurses called on the public for donations of plants and flowers, and electric lights were slung from wires festooned above each bed.
In 1921, 80 000 visitors made their way to the eastern annexe of the Exhibition Building to see an exhibition of photographs on display in the new Australian War Museum.
On ANZAC Day 1922, a permanent display of military relics and dioramas of battle scenes opened in the renamed Australian War Memorial Museum. Over 800 000 people visited this display before its relocation to Sydney in January 1925, then Canberra in the 1930s.
Between March 1941 and December 1945, the RAAF No. 1 School of Technical Training occupied the Exhibition Building.
Two thousand personnel were camped on the floors of the great hall; a shower block was set up in the vestibule behind the organ; the concert hall in the western nave was transformed into a recreation room; and a kitchen, hospital, laundry block and store-room was built on the arena to the north of the building.
A similar event was held for the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth) in 1927. The Duchess returned in 1958 as the Queen Mother.
In 1954, the new Queen and her consort Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, attended a Lord Mayor's Ball in the Royale Ballroom and a state reception in the Exhibition Building.
A gala reception was held in 1970 during the royal family's visit; the Queen and Prince Philip being accompanied by their children Prince Charles and Princess Anne.
And in 1981 the Queen again visited the Exhibition Building for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
In 1885 an aquarium, picture gallery and museum opened in the eastern annexe of the Exhibition Building. On display in this 'world of wonders' were aquatic creatures, natural history specimens, antiquities, fine arts, a suit of armour worn by a member of the Kelly gang, a cyclorama, a children's theatre and a planetarium. The complex was destroyed by fire in 1953.
The concert hall in the western nave of the Exhibition Building continued to attract audiences well into the 20th century, and the exhibition oval was a popular venue for early bicycle races.
On 1 October 1881, management of the Exhibition Building and eight hectares of Carlton Gardens was handed to the Exhibition Trustees by the Melbourne International Exhibition Commissioners. The Trustees' responsibility was to maintain the building for 'future public exhibitions and ... general public instruction and recreation.'
The Trustees successfully fulfilled this role until 1996, when management of the building was transferred to Museum Victoria. The approach embraced by the Trustees in 1881 continues to inform operations at the Royal Exhibition Building today.
From 1901 to 1927, the Victorian state parliament relocated to the western annexe of the Exhibition Building while federal parliamentarians occupied state parliament on Spring Street.
During the agencies' tenure, the courtyard on Rathdowne Street became a vehicle inspection area, and temporary buildings, including a weighbridge, were constructed behind the annexe.
In 1949 the Exhibition Trustees leased the oval at the rear of the Exhibition Building to the commonwealth government for the establishment of a migrant reception centre. At its close in 1961–62, the centre comprised 29 bungalows over 1.4 hectares.
The centre provided temporary accommodation for thousands of recent arrivals from Britain, who remember the bungalows as being freezing cold in winter and stifling hot in summer.
Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show northern plazaImage: Jon AugierSource: Museum Victoria
Since 1880, the Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens have hosted bazaars, exhibitions, commercial events, trade shows, international meetings and community events. They continue to be used in this way today.
The longest-running continuous event is the Hot Rod Show, which first booked the Exhibition Building in 1965. Another regular booking is for university exams, which have been held at the Exhibition Building for more than 80 years.
The Honourable Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, which was held at the Royal Exhibition Building in September-October 1981.
The Exhibition Building set up for Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology examinations, December 1984. Every June and November the Royal Exhibition Building is set up with rows of desks for university exams.
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The American hotel industry is poised to earn a record $27.4 billion in profits this year, nearly $5 billion more than in 2005, but some travel business groups are pressing Congress to pass legislation that could yield even higher profits for the hospitality sector.
A proposed law would create a federal office to encourage travel to the United States by overseas visitors, and a $100 million promotional campaign financed in part through entry fees imposed on some international travelers.
But at least one powerful industry group opposes the measure, and some Congressional critics call it "corporate welfare." A Senate committee approved the bill in June, but it has yet to be voted on by Congress.
"The Senate Commerce Committee has taken an important first step to reversing the 17% decline in overseas travel to the United States [since September, 2001]," says Stevan Porter, chairman of the Discover America Partnership lobby and president of InterContinental Hotels' Americas section in a statement.
The Travel Promotion Act of 2007 would create a federal travel office headed by an Under Secretary of Commerce. The program to explain U.S. travel policy abroad would be financed through a $10 fee paid in part by travelers from 27 countries participating in the United States' Visa Waiver Program. Nationals of waiver countries such as France, Germany and Australia may travel in the United States up to 90 days without a visa.
The promotion would pay for itself, says Jay Rasulo, chairman of the Travel Industry Association and chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. It could bring 1.6 million new visitors and $8 billion in annual spending, a study shows.
But the proposal doesn't sit well with Joseph McInerney, president and CEO of the American Hotel & Lodging Association. "Business is at an all-time high. The hotel industry is going to make more money this year than it's ever made in its history," he says.
While the percentage of European visitors has declined since 2001, an influx of tourists from Canada and Mexico has offset the deficit. The real problem, McInerney says, is that many Europeans boycott the U.S. for political reasons.
"Our Iraq war policy plays into the image of this country. Our friends in France and Italy and Germany boycotted us going to war, and their people aren't supporting us either. Nobody is going to change the way the Europeans think about us until there's a change in the administration," McInerney asserts.
The Travel Industry of America, which supports the legislation, says the number of visitors from France dropped 28% from 2000 to 2006, while the number from Germany fell 22%.
An average of 2.6 million rooms were occupied daily in 2000. The occupancy forecast for 2007 is 2.8 million, says Bjorn Hanson, a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers. "To the extent that since 2000 we have lost international visitors, yes, we've made up for it."
Foreign travelers accounted for 12.8% of occupied hotel rooms in 2000. But this year, only 9.3% of occupied rooms are forecast to be used by foreign visitors, excluding those from Canada and Mexico.
It's a shame to have so few European travelers, in view of the low dollar value, says Hanson. In mid-August, the euro was valued at $1.35. "Imagine how great things would be if we also had international, inbound travelers."


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The family hires psychotherapist Mary Kay (Banks) and muse Delphi (Stewart) to lure him back to work.
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